First, I'll expose you the main characters, their functions and relationships, then I'll give you a small summary of the story, followed by the main themes and their symbolic elements, and finally the style of the book.

Leo Colston has two different aspects, he's the narrator of the book, a man of about sixty year old, and he's a "dried up" man inside.

Leo is a young boy of the middle class. He lives alone with his mother in West Hash, a little village near Salisbury. His father was a bank gardener in Salisbury is dead, Leo thinks he was a crank, he didn't want his son to go to school but his mother always wanted him to go so as soon as he died, he went. His mother liked gossip and was very sensitive to public opinion, she needed social frame, and we can easily imagine her pleasure when her son has been invited to spend a summer to a rich friend. He has also an aunt, Charlotte,

Another key theme is class distinction and its warping effects upon the life of one small boy. He's from a disadvantaged family and is invited in an aristocratic family. The father and the fiance are aware of the girl's affair with the farmer, but do nothing about it. They are confident she will do the "right thing" in the end, and she does. "Why don't you marry Ted," the boy asks the young woman. "Because I can't," she replies. "Then why are you marrying Trimmington?" "Because I must." She understands, and she is tough enough to endure. Indeed, at the end of the film she turns up years later as an old lady very much in the image of her mother.

Another main theme is past and memory, L. P. Hartley begins The Go-Between: with "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." This book is memory like in The Glass Menagerie; it is a look through the dusty memory of a sixty years old man.

Leslie Poles Hartley was born in 1895; he studied in Oxford and was officer in France during World War 1. He was novelist, short-story writer and critic. His reputation as a writer was established with the publication of the trilogy of novels, The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944), The Sixth Heaven (1946), and Eustace and Hilda (1947). He died in 1972.

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)